For the third time in a dozen years, the U.S. scientific community is digging in for a potentially lengthy partial federal government shutdown that promises to disrupt research and funding programs. https://scim.ag/4pQ9y0K

During #PeerReviewWeek, @science.org heard from individual authors who talked about how peer review strengthened their work, making it functionally richer, more accessible, more pointed regarding limitations--sometimes in collaboration with preprint review. See author posts in thread below. 🧵

Increasing the breadth of researchers trained as peer reviewers is crucial to upholding quality in academic publishing. Last year, the Science journals began a pilot in which invited peer reviewers could add trainees as co-reviewers, with more than 2200 scientists participating. #PeerReviewWeek

As I wrote about for @motherjones.com, people are already crossing state lines to get the Covid vaccine—which may become more common if the CDC vaccine advisory committee recommends limiting them this week. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Another fun animated cover this week 😍

Scoop from @cohenjon.bsky.social: NIH may massively increase HIV 'implementation science', to $1 billion annually, at the expense of basic research. Some HIV researchers are alarmed. www.science.org/content/arti...

So many great suggestions here 📚

Happy #InternationalCatDay from Larry!

I traveled to Guinea to find out what U.S. budget cuts mean for the fight against malaria. Here's my story in @science.org - with powerful photography by Marta Moreiras. www.science.org/content/arti...

Well, this makes it real: I'm retiring in September and this is the just-posted job listing for my replacement. @Science.org is a fabulous place to work, so @sciencewriters.org, apply here! recruiting.ultipro.com/AME1123ASEM/...

In an exclusive chat with Science, Loreen Willenberg describes remaining HIV-free even after immune-suppressing therapies for brain and lung tumors. scim.ag/4lYu3pl

Exclusive: In response to White House concerns about allegedly risky research on viruses, bacteria, and other pathogens, the National Institutes of Health has begun a crackdown on dozens of studies it was funding, ScienceInsider has learned. scim.ag/44oJIbw

Breaking news: The U.S. government has canceled a proposed $900 million project to study in unprecedented detail the afterglow of the Big Bang, the cosmic microwave background radiation. scim.ag/4eIo0m4

The Senate appropriations committee has voiced its intent to ignore the request by President Donald Trump to slash the budgets of the National Science Foundation and NASA science programs. scim.ag/4nW7XWi

“So what’s working? Original reporting can break through the noise and even overcome … the hurdles that social-media companies have created. Publishers now place a premium on content that reinforces their voice and sensibility … It’s also a matter of meeting readers where they are.” Worth the read!

Update: The Environmental Protection Agency placed 139 employees on administrative leave today and launched an investigation into their signing of an open letter criticizing agency leadership. See our initial reporting. ⬇️

"An absolute moral failure." Around one in three disabled people are on Medicaid. I spoke to disability advocates about how devastated they are that the House passed the budget bill that will slash close to a trillion from Medicaid at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Cheese really might give you strange dreams—especially if you have a sensitivity to dairy. That and more of the best in @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪 🧠

Exclusive: An international scientific competition widely credited with spurring the development of artificial intelligence for biology appears to be on its deathbed. scim.ag/44ukS90

In the latest from the @science.org podcast series of books on science and death, we hear about the fate of virtual you after physical death w/ @tamigraph.bsky.social www.science.org/content/podc...

Hundreds of employees at the EPA released a “Declaration of Dissent” today, accusing EPA officials of politicizing the agency and undermining its core mission to “protect human health and the environment.” scim.ag/4lB937S

I refer folks to @theopennotebook.bsky.social all.the.time. Just yesterday, I told one of @science.org's fantastic interns about TON's (free! email!) Master Classes. And that's just one of many (did I mention free?) resources. Help them keep it that way? Donate here: www.theopennotebook.com/donate/

#ScienceAdviser is turning two! 🎉 To mark the #newsletter's second anniversary, we’re giving away 50 pairs of exclusive socks to randomly selected subscribers who enter between June 23 and June 27. 🧦 Sign up here: scim.ag/4lnaVB5

This story and the accompanying visuals (many interactive) turned out so wonderful. Scroll through and enjoy!

As the world warms, plants in natural ecosystems and agricultural settings find ways to respond to the heat. In a new special issue of Science, researchers examine how heat affects plants at multiple scales, from the molecular level to the biosphere. (THREAD 🧵) scim.ag/44cSw3Z

Me talking to my cats

Have you heard? You can now listen to #NewsfromScience stories using our new text-to-speech feature. 🎧 Try it out for this story on how built-in safeguards might stop AI from designing bioweapons: scim.ag/45OyePq

This is the big one: Kennedy is firing the entire #ACIP in a move he says is needed to restore confidence in vaccines. "It scares me to think of what’s ahead,” Mike Osterholm of CIDRAP told me. www.statnews.com/2025/06/09/r...

Breaking news: Staff at the National Institutes of Health have issued a declaration calling on their director to depoliticize the agency and reverse spending cuts.

Proud of the team!

New word of the day: gargalesis

Last week’s Blatten disaster showcased the consequences of melting glaciers. With existing climate policies, more than 3/4 of global glacier mass is set to disappear. That and more from @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

Breaking from @science.org: The Trump administration wants to kill off a host of active and healthy NASA climate and planetary spacecraft. It would be a "leaner, more focused" agency, they say -- and one far less capable of studying the Earth and exploring space.

“COVID vaccines reduce the risk of becoming sick, developing long COVID and becoming hospitalized, for everyone. COVID continues to spread and cause harm. Limiting access to vaccines is an anti-science move that will kill more Americans.” - me in @huffpost.com

A huge step from HHS that is at odds with science showing significant risks for young children and pregnant women — and that directly contradicts *the FDA's own publication* from last week listing pregnancy as a high-risk condition that would qualify people for this fall's Covid vaccine

Nominate a chemist with disabilities for C&EN's Trailblazers 2025 This year, the issue will profile the lives and work of groundbreaking chemists with disabilities and highlight how they make their labs or their work more accessible to them: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon... #chemsky🧪

This is a bummer. I liked Pocket. And now it means I need to actually read all the stories saved in my backlog 😅 techcrunch.com/2025/05/22/m...

This is a really fun look at @science.org covers through the years.

Such a great cover 😍

"It is a reflection of the changing nature of how news is distributed that audiences can, and regularly do, make distinctions about what kinds of content they see online. Part of the scrolling experience is making snap judgments about whether content is news and whether to engage with it."

Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.

“These individuals represent the three arms of what is necessary to create new science and then translate it for the world...to make a difference,” said @meganranney.bsky.social, part of the committee — convened by @holdenthorp.bsky.social — that selected the winners. www.aaas.org/news/road-le...

Our 1 May 2025 issue introduces a print redesign—the magazine’s first redesign in 11 years. Developed entirely in-house, this project brought together our staff’s editorial and design expertise. (THREAD 🧵)

The Trump administration has made it official, letting Women's Health Initiative investigators know that their money won't dry up in September after all.

"We’re working on the policy, Jocelyn. You shouldn’t be reporting rumors ... " My colleague @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social wrote up her "brief, sometimes confrontational, and even personal" interview with NIH's new director Jay Bhattacharya - and you should read it.... 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

Did you hear? You can now listen to audio narrations of our #NewsfromScience stories. 🎧 Check out this new tool on a story about the oldest ant fossil ever found: scim.ag/44PK0IY

For a wrapup of how federal research agencies would fare under Trump's proposed budget for FY2026, keep reading: www.science.org/content/arti...

This year, Science will present a limited #SciencePodcast🎙️ series featuring books that delve into the science of death, exploring the topic through the lenses of biology, sociology, technology, and even astrophysics. 🎧 Listen to a sneak preview: scim.ag/44evD0D

Proud of the @science.org team for this recognition and excited to learn the winners later this month! www.sspnet.org/community/ne...

In a new #ScienceEditorial, Creative Director Beth Rakouskas and Editor-in-Chief @holdenthorp.bsky.social introduce Science's new look—the magazine’s first print redesign in 11 years. Learn more: scim.ag/4cWYfhe